Everything Hormones CME Course

Available Now Online!

Presented by two renowned hormone experts, this course promises to revolutionize your approach to hormone health. (Originally presented and recorded on April 26 & 27, 2024.)

You’ve likely heard these experts speak and explored their insightful articles, as well as delved into their books. Now, they have teamed up to bring you an exceptional online learning experience.

This evergreen course contains over 16 hours of power-packed content, covering everything from the efficacy and safety of hormone therapies to script writing and patient tracking. But the learning doesn’t stop there you also receive extensive bonus material and resources. (Check out the many course bonuses below!)

Work through the course at your own pace with convenient online viewing. You will have until May 2025 to claim your CMEs. (You will continue to have access to the course material after May 2025.)

After completing the course you will have the opportunity to be listed in the Everything Hormones Referral Directory available on Dr. Berkson’s website. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your practice and transform patient care! 

Questions? Email [email protected]

CME Questions

Check with your Board

(Often there is mutual recognition of these CMEs with International CMEs. Check with your specific licensing board.)

Our CME: AMA PRA Category 1 or CUE Credit Hours 

Day One

Hour One – Understanding Hormones, Genomic and Non Genomic Signaling

• Largest HRT Study Ever! 
• Understanding receptor physiology
• Estrogen Receptors ER alpha, ER beta, GPER
• Endocrine disruption as a competitive inhibition of hormone signals. (In egg, sperm, placenta, mother’s milk ending up in hormonal dysfunction earlier and earlier.)
• “Receptor Physiology” as “root” hormonal functioning. Transcriptional co-factors, nutrients, and duration of hormone signals

Hour Two – Understanding the WHI & The Estrogen Science

• Estrogen’s Timeline, Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) over time. Getting the WHI (1) straight and learning about WHI (2)
• Understand hormonal controversy & hormone safety
• Progesterone vs Progestins (Medroxyprogesteron )
• Progesterone Resistance
• Ethinyl estradiol vs estradiol
• Progestins and OCPs: Breast/Stroke Risk
• EDC’s/Plastics

Hours Three & Four – Understanding Estrogen Receptors,  Menopause and Peri-Menopause

• Estrogen’s Actions Via Receptors, 
  • Understanding estrogen metabolism, 
  • Role of testosterone on the Estrogen receptors & breast protection, 
  • Estrogen” Delivery modes – oral (“first hepatic pass”) versus topical/vaginal (“first vaginal pass”)
• Hormones & the Brain, Tracking brain health in symptoms & serum and hippocampal volume and the role of HRT
• Efficacy, Safety of Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy: 7 Million NIH Medicare Study (largest study every run on 1.5 women US women) the science and why does some science say that HRT drives cancer and dementia.
• HRT in high-risk women/hypercoagulable genetic disorders & stroke
• The Role of Estrogen and the gut wall

Hours Five & Six – The Hormone Cascade & Testosterone

• Understanding each hormone, and how they interact.
• A focus on each individual hormone, Testosterone, DHEA, Cortisol, pregnenolone, etc
• Cholesterol and statins discussion.
• Translating hormones into clinical practice

Hours Seven & Eight – Thyroid Disease

• Thyroid Disease 
• Testing, Tracking prevalence
• Subclinical hypothyroidism
• Tighter serum functional ranges to avoid adverse events down-the-road (TSH, Free T3, Free T4)

Q & A  Brownstein & Berkson (Recorded April 26, 2024) 

Day Two

Hour Nine – Iodine In-Depth

• Iodine Deficiency (Ubiquidious bromides assaulting iodine)
• Testing, Tracking, urine testing
• Controversies and dosing in clinical practice
• Pre-natal iodine to avoid ADHD and other childhood issues

Hour 10 – Female Hormones, Scripts, Dosage and Emerging FSH Role

• Female Hormones, Introducing the role of FSH in tracking BHRT Efficacy
• Understanding the Relationship with Hippocampal Volume
• Comparison of delivery modes, bases (Versa base, Anhydrous, Oil, Creams), dosing, to cycle or not to cycle
• How to test, track levels, and write the BHRT scripts in peri and postmenopausal women
• Topical v. oral v. “first vaginal pass”
• Adequate progesterone to protect breast/endometrial stripe.
• Dose Equivalents of Estradiol Range and Outliers

Hour 11 – Endometriosis: Causes & Treatment

• Theories of endometriosis, 
• Role of progesterone resistance & endocrine disruptors, 
• Controversial role of estrogen receptor beta
• The treatment of endometriosis in regards to progesterone resistance & the unique application of HCG, Unique role of TGF Beta 1
• Role of Melatonin, Gluten, and Specific Protocols

Hour 12 – Male Hormones: Injectibles vs Creams, Doses, Bases

• Males Hormones
• Testing tracking, treating
• Comparison of delivery modes: injectable, topical

Hour 13 – Progesterone In-Depth

• The unknown history of Progesterone
• The unappreciated wider dose range
• The symptoms of progesterone insufficiency & Conditions that replacement helps
• Break-through bleeding issues

Hour 14 – Autoimmune Disease and the Application of Iodine

• Autoimmune Diseases Etiology & Iodine and Autoimmune
• Controversies of Iodine and Autoimmunity 
• Treating Autoimmune, Hashimkoto’s, MS

Hour 15 – Global Lowering of Hormones in Younger Humans and What to Do About It

• Demonstrating lowered hormones in teens and young adults 
• How to preserve fertility in males with low T
• Protocol to reboot sperm production (HCG/Fertility, Clomid)
• BHRT for young girls

Hour 16 – Case Reports: How to Apply the Science in the Clinic 

• Common & Uncommon Problems, Specific Syndromes and Protocols,
• Endometrial Stripe Debate 
• Pros and Cons of Pellet Insertion
• Supraphysiologic Doses

Final Q & A with Panel of All Experts (Recorded April 27, 2024)